Mix a little foolishness with your prudence; it's good to be silly at the right moment.

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

The truth is the light and light is the truth.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

When you enter those places of trust, or power, dream a little before you think.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.